Kal Penn, aka #sexyface, gives Democratic response to Eastwood

CHARLOTTE, N.C.—It had to be the first time a party convention speech inspired widespread use of the Twitter hashtag #sexyface.

Kal Penn, the former White House staffer, better known to many of his peers as the star of the “Harold and Kumar” stoner movies, slyly suggested that viewers use the term when tweeting about his jocular address to Democratic delegates.

It was a measure of the appeal of the actor and devoted Obama supporter, who on Tuesday night sought to once again harness his cool factor to help the president.

Penn noted that he had “worked on a lot of fun movies,” but that his favorite job was working for “a boss who gave the order to take out Bin Laden and who’s cool with all of us getting gay married.”

“So thank you, invisible man in the chair, for that,” he said sardonically, a not-so-subtle swipe at the roundly mocked routine that actor Clint Eastwood delivered on the last night of the GOP convention.